The first building of the Finland Station was built in 1870 for the Finnish railway linking the capital of Finland. The road was built in the years 1862-1870 to the station Rihimyaki. In the early twentieth century the way the Finland Station was renovated. road level was raised to five meters above street level, so as not to interfere with the movement of the street.
at Finland Station April 3, 1917, he arrived home from his exile Vladimir Lenin. The memory of that day on the square in the old building of the Finland Station in 1926, a monument was erected. In 1957 he exhibited at the station carrying Lenin in Russian locomotive H2-293 (Given Finland USSR)
Station was the only one who worked during the siege:. Here took the beginning of “The Road of Life”, and February 7, 1943 here from the mainland arrived The first train with provisions. In memory of this on the station platform in 1973 was built the first of the 56 kilometer-long memorial pillars, standing along the railway line “Road of Life».
In the 1950s was carried out complex repair station.